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	'<{title}>' => 'My head manager has no backbone.',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
	'<{body}>' => <<<END
<section id="drudgery">
	<h2>University drudgery</h2>
	<p>
		Someone tried to answer my question in regards to this week&apos;s assignment, but didn&apos;t actually pay attention to what the issue was.
		At all.
		They provided a bunch of example of functions with infinite ranges, but the examples they used all had infinite domains as well.
		It&apos;s the combination of an infinite range and a finite domain that I&apos;m having trouble with.
		In fact, I&apos;m pretty sure it&apos;s impossible; we&apos;ve been given an impossible assignment, probably due to a mistake on someone&apos;s part.
		So far, the professor has said nothing.
		My response:
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			I&apos;m aware that the domain and range are the x- and y-coordinates, respectively.
			Which is exactly the problem.
			In a function of x, how can x have a finite span of values while y has an infinite span?
			As far as I can tell, it makes no sense.
			I&apos;d like to point out that in <strong>*none*</strong> of your examples, the domain or the range is finite.
			In other words, none of them are relevant to the problem at hand.
			The problem is that if x has a finite span and y is derived from x, how can y have an infinite span?
			In the first problem for the week, we&apos;re given the task of finding a function of x in which x&apos;s span is finite, while y&apos;s span is not.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		I also furthered the discussion again today ...
	</p>
	<blockquote>
		<p>
			Like you said, it&apos;s really a matter of priority.
			Which item do you want to buy more?
			Are you even satisfied with only one item, or would you rather get neither if you can&apos;t afford both?
			Without a whole lot more context-specific information (which could even vary by the day based on which customers come by), we just have no way to figure out which button will be pressed more.
			I guess it&apos;s a logic problem like you said, but not one for us, as we don&apos;t have the details needed to apply the logic.
			It&apos;s a logic problem for the hypothetical customers.
		</p>
	</blockquote>
	<p>
		It seems one student found the fertiliser/rat vending machine problem to be &quot;fun&quot;.
		The problem was fun?
		Seriously?
		More like mildly irritating.
		We&apos;re taking a maths course, and on the first week, we&apos;re thrown some strange problem that has little to do with maths and not given enough details to actually solve it.
		How is that fun?
		Everyone&apos;s coming up with their own perspective on the situation, and it&apos;s pretty clear there&apos;s not likely to be a &quot;correct&quot; answer.
		If there <strong>*is*</strong> one, I&apos;d certainly love to know what it is.
	</p>
</section>
<section id="Lori">
	<h2>Lori Spencer</h2>
	<p>
		Work was going pretty well today, until a problem customer came through the drive-through.
		This customer, one Lori Spencer, ordered something we didn&apos;t have ready at the moment.
		I informed them there&apos;d be a ten-minute delay if they wanted that, and they were okay with that, so I charged them and sent them on their way to return when it got done.
		Except ... they refused to leave.
		They insisted on holding up the entire drive-through lane for ten minutes while their order was being cooked.
		I explained the problem, that they were holding up other customers, and they still refused to leave.
		Eventually, they requested my name, and asked to see my manager.
		I explained the situation to the manager and asked them to come see the customer, and they refused.
		They told me to give the customer <strong>*another customer&apos;s pizza*</strong>, making a reasonable customer that&apos;s already waited wait even longer, just to make the problem customer go away and get out of speaking with them.
		Seriously!?
		The worst part is that this teaches problem customers that they can get their way by continuing to be problem customers.
		What kind of spineless twit would choose to allow this?
	</p>
	<p>
		I used to think my head manager just didn&apos;t have my back.
		Their past actions have indicated that they simply don&apos;t care about their employees, myself included.
		But today, I&apos;ve come to a new realisation: my head manager doesn&apos;t have any backbone!
		It&apos;s not just that they don&apos;t care enough to do their job, they&apos;re too cowardly!
		Every time there&apos;s a problem customer, I get no support, and am just thrown to the wolves.
		I really need to get out of here, but it&apos;s going to have to wait until my shift leader teaches me how to drive.
	</p>
	<p>
		You may have noticed that I don&apos;t use legal names in this journal without permission.
		This customer, Lori Spencer, actually <strong>*gave*</strong> me permission!
		They said the realised that they were (their words, not mine) &quot;being a bitch&quot;, and said to feel free to tell everyone that.
		Of course, they have no idea that I keep a public journal and that telling everyone means telling <strong>*everyone*</strong> that has any clue who I am, but permission is permission.
		And if they&apos;re not going to be reasonable, why should I explain exactly what &quot;everyone&quot; means in my case?
		My spineless head manager, on the other hand, shall remain anonymous.
		Anyway, I&apos;m saying all this now, but it won&apos;t actually go public right away.
		I&apos;m mid-term, which means today&apos;s entry won&apos;t show up for five years.
		Whatever though.
		It feels good to vent, and acts as a reminder that I do need to leave when I can.
	</p>
</section>
END
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